Forget foetus frenzy and focus on actual children

SO, Ireland. This is it. This is the week where the present cleaves from the past, like those bits of rocket that fall away as the rocket gathers momentum. That rocket is the voice of Irish women.

On Friday, history will be made, when the will of Irish women becomes enshrined in law. It’s hard to imagine another outcome.

As an Irish woman abroad, catching snatches of the debate, it is a relief to not have been in Ireland in the run up to May 25. The poster-covered lamp posts, the televised bun fights, the rhetoric, the shouting, the piety, the fury and the ignorance. The relentlessness of it, and the black and white thinking.